Dr Michelle Clement

Perfect end to our @strandgroup.bsky.social London governance module this year - across to City Hall for an excellent session with Deputy Mayor @howarddawber.bsky.social discussing the mayoralty today.

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‘The Art of Delivery’ is reviewed alongside Jonathan Simcock’s ‘The Delivery Gap’ and Nick Gibb and Robert Peal’s ‘Reforming Lessons’.

Second mover advantage The postman delivers the parcel. The midwife delivers the baby. The highwayman invites us to stand and deliver. In each case, we know what to expect. But when the flustered politician protests that “I...

📣 Delighted to read this review of my 📕 ‘The Art of Delivery’ by Ferdinand Mount in @thetls.bsky.social

✍️ ‘Seldom since Samuel Pepys have the comings and goings in Whitehall been so meticulously recorded...’

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Huge congratulations to our Visiting Professors Sir Michael Barber and Catherine MacLeod having been raised to the peerage.

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L-R: Professor Jon Davis, Lord Francis Maude, Dr Michelle Clement, Emilia Braddon

Delighted to welcome Lord Francis Maude to ‘History of the Civil Service’ class to reflect on his experience as a reforming minister in Cameron govt

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Wonderful as always to take our @strandgroup.bsky.social 'London: Governing the Global City' class to the Guildhall to discuss the ancient City of London's role in London, the UK and the world.

Not sure whose bright idea was it to take a class pic in the crypt... 💡😬

Employability - serving civil service and @strandgroup.bsky.social MA Government Studies student @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Tom gives our students a masterclass on the civil service fast stream application process

Case study week on the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' module on @strandgroup.bsky.social MA Government Studies - Expert advisers @nickmacpherson.bsky.social @officialedballs.bsky.social prep students before they re-enact the day UK left the ERM in Sep 1992, a historic and chaotic 24 hours

Delighted to welcome a new cohort of MA Government Studies students to ‘The History of the Civil Service’ module @strandgroup.bsky.social

Over 10 weeks we examine how the Civil Service has evolved alongside changing role of the state

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Government Studies | King's College London The only course of its kind to go beyond teaching theory to apply an in-depth perspective of how the British state is run, taught by those within government.

Douglas Alexander: "Knowledge with purpose is a brilliant description of the course... I wish I had been able to do this in my twenties"

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In Conversation with Douglas Alexander MP - The Strand Group The seventy-eighth Strand Group event, in partnership with the Policy Institute, took place on 15 October when Douglas Alexander, the Secretary of State for Scotland, discussed the challenges and comp...

Watch last week's insightful Strand Group / @policyatkings.bsky.social event with Secretary of State for Scotland Douglas Alexander 'in conversation' with our Visiting Professor Catherine MacLeod.

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Great that @fletchersimon.bsky.social, political advisor and former Chief of Staff to Mayor Ken Livingstone, could join our London government module for the first time last week.

Some serious insights into the mayoralty, alongside some excellent Trafalgar Square Pigeon discussion

Case study week on the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' module on @strandgroup.bsky.social MA Government Studies - Expert advisers @nickmacpherson.bsky.social and @officialedballs.bsky.social help prep students before they re-enact debates over the 1976 IMF crisis

...and delighted to welcome Natan Doron, Mayoral Head of Policy at the GLA, to talk us through the challenges and opportunities faced by the capital today. Our students getting a crash course into what it's really like to govern one of the world's greatest cities (2/2)

All smiles as we're back underway with our 'London: Governing the Global City' module on @strandgroup.bsky.social
MA Government Studies - Prof Tony Travers delivering his masterful '2000 years of London history in 45 mins' lecture to kick off... (1/2)

The MA Government Studies team are delighted to be back in the classroom, teaching our second cohort. The programme goes from strength to strength, with more students than ever before participating in our unique expert-led courses.

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Very much looking forward to speaking to Ann and @pivotalpolicy.bsky.social network about my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ and to consider lessons for Northern Ireland

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In Conversation with Douglas Alexander MP - The Strand Group The seventy-eighth Strand Group event will take place on 15 October where Douglas Alexander, the Secretary of State for Scotland, will discuss the challenges and complexities governments are navigatin...

Join us on 15 October at 1830 for an in conversation event with Douglas Alexander the Secretary of State for Scotland.

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Keir Starmer wants to fix Britain. He’s still working out how. As Britain’s prime minister embarks on another No. 10 revamp, some officials are questioning the structures he created to show “delivery” to the public.

Delighted to share insights from my 📕 The Art of Delivery with @danbloom1.bsky.social for his deep dive @politico.eu piece on PM Starmer’s No10 machinery of govt changes

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Featuring Dr Michelle Clement

Keir Starmer wants to fix Britain. He’s still working out how. As Britain’s prime minister embarks on another No. 10 revamp, some officials are questioning the structures he created to show “delivery” to the public.

This is really good from @danbloom1.bsky.social on the misfiring No 10 machine www.politico.eu/article/keir...

📣 Great to hear my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ recommended in @financialtimes.com podcast by @stephenkb.bsky.social

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Great to hear Prof @officialedballs.bsky.social describing to ex-Chancellor Kwarteng how history repeats itself in the @strandgroup.bsky.social 'Chancellors and the Treasury' MA class on latest political currency pod.

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Director’s Blog July 2025 - The Strand Group Professor Jon Davis OBE

As we come to the end of the academic year, I’d like to share some of the great work done by the Strand Group in 2024-25 with particular reference to the first year of the MA Government Studies

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Director’s Blog July 2025 - The Strand Group Professor Jon Davis OBE

Congratulations to @jonmdavis.bsky.social on the first successful year of the MA Govt Studies thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/news-item/di...

If you get a chance, would v much appreciate a short review on Amazon. Thank you, again!

Yes, the stocktakes were v focused, based on agreed data and had the right people in the room.

Noise and gamesmanship is part of politics and therefore part of government, esp at the centre. The rigour of stocktake process guarded against this but you can’t 100% get away from it.

Thank you for sharing your feedback!

IMO Michael Barber was playing the ‘honest broker’ and Blair’s backing was critical. Barber was v focused on the outcomes needed by end of the Parliament. He had to be politically astute. You’re right that he didn’t “play the game” in the usual manner many do.